11 Mar 2019 Fake news and the hijacking of public opinion
British Members of Parliament are agitating for tougher regulations to combat fake news.
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04 Mar 2019 To share or not to share
A friend forwarded a YouTube video reporting on an apparent practice in a Central Asian country of abducting women for marriage.
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25 Feb 2019 Digital surveillance: Who watches the watchers?
Last year Australia passed a bill weakening security on the iPhones and software people rely on in today’s digital world. This sweeping law could force tech companies to access encrypted data.
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18 Feb 2019 I Got Algorithm
How to prevent social networks from damaging the well-being of young people?...
18 Feb 2019 Mind your language!
Masculine, feminine, or gender-neutral?
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04 Feb 2019 Data protection and googol fines
Data privacy, also called information privacy, is about what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.
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28 Jan 2019 Building trust in a fragmented world
Genuine communication is all about creating relationships and building trust.
...21 Jan 2019 What makes great journalism? On foreign correspondents and terror
Yet another terrorist act played out in Nairobi just two weeks into 2019.
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14 Jan 2019 Hunger for truth games
Media wars can easily get personal. Today the name of the game is Showtime! Ratings trump sober facts and inconvenient truths. Fox News offers foxy entertainment; The New York Post offers sensationalism; the gutter press epitomised by the likes of the...
07 Jan 2019 Shrinking civic space demands alternative strategies
At the end of 2018, an astonishing statistic was published by CIVICUS Monitor, a research collaborative effort that rates and tracks respect for fundamental freedoms in 196 countries.
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